Abstract:

It is a fact accepted by all academic circles that countries need to improve their energy policies and reduce energy external dependency for a stable and sustainable economic development. In addition, the military power politics of the countries which want to be stronger in economic and social care within the world order, for the regions where the energy resources are located are also indicators of how important energy is. With the effect of increasing energy demand in the world, developments in the field of energy deeply affect both economic and social structure. As a result of industrialization and technological progress, Turkey's energy import dependency is increasing. This study shows that beyond Turkey's energy policy in the recent period primarily Turkey should take into account while generating the energy policy with the renewable energy potential as including more computing alternative energy sources and a nuclear power transition process that uses new technology as a country with the world's second largest thorium reserves re-evaluation of required.